I have been trying for past 5 months, reading various articles and pages to know this, but you summed it really well, now i am not going to waste my time anymoreby searching for articles and videos to enable dolby vision on my pc
"so why won't dolby sell DV app for windows as a separate app and price it accordingly. i'd be willing to pay up to $50 for it" They do, and like "Dolby access" for ATMOS,it is a POS based on reviews Dolby access was nightmare pos TBH if all you want it for is PC gming,it works amazing But it cannot be disabled,and it always interferes with your audio ATMOS in gaming is way less important to me than my music This has to be written by Dolby? Wy are they so shit at this software
Yes, i would happily pay a once off permanent lifetime license fee for Dolby vision on my pc especially now Oled monitors have come out so the quality of image is significant enough for Dolby Vision differences to be noticeable.
Atmos is a separate issue as many don't realise that they won't benefit from what Atmos offers unless they can install ceiling and height speakers, or at least upward firing speakers. Otherwise they would experience no benefit of standard Dolby 5.1 or 7.2 or similar sound. Dolby Vision however directly effects the quality of image you see.
@@MaZEEZaM so is the only solution to watch dolby vision to have a compatible tv(i have lg c1), appletv4k, and lets say apple tv+ or netflix ultimate? cuz i might just do this for all my movies and shows, then switch to pc for games, youtube, etc...
great vid. No fluff all facts. I also loved the goofy colors in the beginning - such a nice touch. I'd gladly pay a one-time fee to unlock DV for playback on things like Plex on windows.
So in theory then, couldn't we have a certified DV player "APP" that is on a flashable NVROM inside our video card so we could pay the few dollars to "unlock" DV playback and since the playback happens full screen directly through the video card the whole computer doesn't need certification?
I want to play hdr 10 or dolby vision content on my pc ( i own an oled display laptop). Please tell me which video player i can use which supports hdr so that i can watch movies in hdr
Does anyone know how to bloody disable this at all???? use steam on my tv but when try and play certain games (terror of hermosauraus for example) i will get a few mins of gaming and then black screen (with Dolby Vision at bottom right) and I can hear the game still but no picture, just black screen
After reading an article from Digital Trends on one issue with the Samsung Galaxy S23 series, and I can see why. Still, I wish Samsung should strike a deal with Dolby to bring in Dolby Vision to next year's S24 series. So for Samsung to do some cost-cutting measures so that they can pay Dolby their licensing fee without issues, have Dolby Vision exclusive for the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra only. Considering how popular the Ultra variants of the S series after the S22 Ultra, the S24 Ultra with Dolby Vision will sell like hotcakes more than the S23 Ultra and S22 Ultra altogether.
so is the only solution to watch dolby vision to have a compatible tv(i have lg c1), appletv4k or shield, and lets say apple tv+ or netflix ultimate? cuz i might just do this for all my movies and shows, then switch to pc for games, youtube, etc...
Any luck? I have a LG C3 42", RTX 4090 and 14th gen Intel CPU etc. Never see the dolby vision logo come up. Have to run direct through the TV. Super annoying
Windows' Movies & TV app can play Dolby Vision because it tone maps it, but it's not actually Dolby Vision. Your TV will not show the Dolby Vision logo.
I just find it strange that Dolby doesn't launch an official app to be able to choose between vivid colors, darkness and brightness in Dolby Vision, since the app it has doesn't do any of that... in fact MPC-HC has released an update that supports Dolby Vision by Media Player Render, is a great option for those who don't want to use the official Microsoft application
@@CreativeGamestv1 When did they devellopp it before 2017 i think because it's wrtitten ont their website: MPC-HC is not under development since 2017. Please switch to something else.
It's great that now there are software players, besides the Dolby Vision Extensions, that handle the DV video +/- correctly. But it is still sad, that having a DV monitor, you still have to deal with HDR10 or with a LLDV.
@@jacobtreadway8121 MPV player, also MPC video render supports DV, so you can watch a DV movie with any media player that supports the DirectShow filters.
Great breakdown. I ponder however, who the heck has true 12-bit color space monitors to begin with for Dolby Vision? I do not understand. Even the $20k production monitors used for broadcast studios and colorists, at most use 10-bit color space. Not even high end TV's are true 10-bit, using 8-bit plus interpolation for the last two bits.
No-one yet, I think they did it because they can, TV manufactures always love bigger numbers, when they start slapping 12-bit on the box (whether that's true 12-bit or not) Dolby will be "Ready". a lot of stuff came out CES with new Variable refresh rate tech, backlight strobing (again), pixel strobing. it's possible the data they would have used for 12-bit, they'll use for 10-bit + Enhanced VRR, just a guess.
Really well summed out, saves me time trying to figure this out. However Im curious about your comment regarding HDR10 on Windows implementation not being messy, how so?
"Just copy the DV video to USB and plug it in to your TV if you have one that supports DV" Damn that may be a genius idea mate How is that done tho? A USB SD card? Can u get DV and ATMOS over a USB? i assume not, and you mean some other method? I have an LG G3, and it def does DV, but if that works for DV, how would i still get ATMOS track? Cheers
thanks man, love your attitude and the info was very useful. my DV pipe dream, like many other shall be just that for a while longer so haha, a bit off topic but what in your opinion makes the best 4k capable plex client that isn't windows?
Thanks, the best is probably the Nvidia Shield. But the best bang for the buck is Firestick 4K Max, it's on offer quite a lot I picked up 2 last prime day for half price. You can even get an Ethernet adapter for it if your WiFi struggles with 4K. The cheap android boxes aren't great, but the Firestick hits the sweet spot.
Im reading about issues with the 4k max vs the 4k stick on reddit. seems like people are struggling with getting it to always play nice with audio passthrough for truehd atmos 7.1 and even some videos being transcoded when they don't need to be. have you any wisdom for me here sir before I pull the trigger? thanks!
Ha no worries, glad you got it worked out. Yes the Shield is best if you are also going for passthrough audio. Audio and video standards can be a headache and we can all blame Dolby for that.
Just found out about this. I have been having problem with Alienware M15 R7 not able to stream DV HDR. The laptop is featured with Dolby Vision / atmos. Windows 11. It does play HDR video when connected to HDR monitor
I have had nothing but issues with Dolby. Everything just works on the xbox. The sound, and vision. For some reason W11 just refuse to work. I think this is fully due to Dolby, their Customer Service wasnt great either.. yeah for buying into their services....
My microsof edge is showing Dolby vision on Netflix. But it is really bad and colourless. It is almost black and white. Please tell how to solve this problem
had me wondering how to fix this and even on my new oled , video files still seem to be green and purple , only way i found was to redownload , the annoying thing about it when you dont have good internet and live in the country ... ive noticed there dsnp files!!....
The issue I having, is that ran out storage on my phone because of videos. I trying send them to my computer with iTunes and when I downloaded the videos all them end up having a doby watermark. I trying find way to prevent this.
Hello thanks for the Video! How do i enable HDR + on Windows? Or where do i See which HDR is enabled while playing a game or movie via potplayer? All i see in the corner on my TV( C2) when i start my PC ist HDR symbol
Anyone got a guide on how to make this work? I have DV MKV files, have Dolby Access installed, and Dolby Vision Extensions installed. No dice, does not work, can't find any how-to guides. Any suggestions?
You won't find any guides because DV doesn't work on Windows outside of a few specific edge cases, even then it's not great. That's the short version of the video.
Dolby access for atmos is nightmare enough What a pos It finally does work well with games, but it efs up other audio programs and it cannot, no matter what they or tutorials say, be turned on and off cuz I only want it for games The app seems an underwhelming experience and a money grab They did refund me tho after a pita complaining I won’t even bother with d vision then I do believe that Potplayer and River Media support Dolby vision Plz correct me if I’m wrong?
pot and river will playback DV content but it's either using the standard HDR Fallback layer or tone mapping DV to standard HDR, which will be static, not dynamic and not real DV :( Edit: a sentence that was nonsense
@@BuzStringer Well that really sucks to hear mate. So basically when one plays a DV file in Potplayer or Jriver they are actually getting HDR? Or HDR 10+? Or something in between? Not as good as DV but maybe better,a bit, than Dolby Vision? I've been trying to suss this issue for a while now on the Jriver forums, and most of it went way over my head If i am understanding you correctly,you made it way simpler to understand than what i read on JRiver forums(Version 31) So when they say it supports DV,that does not mean that it actually plays DV as DV? So having back up DV files on my PC is basically a waste if i want DV playback,and the only way to get actual DV is to stream, and or a Blu-ray/disc player that has DV? EDIT: Also DV pc games would also be w wasted time if one is expecting actual DV in the games output? Makes me wonder why those games bother to have and market those games as DV Cheers
@@leperlord7078 yeah unfortunately you be just getting HDR, maybe slightly better depending on how their tone mapping works but it won't be real DV. With the exception of games, Dolby doesn't license DV to software alone, they license the whole device so they can control all of the processing chain. Which is why Plex/Emby/Kodi won't playback true DV on Windows, but they will on an Android device like the FireTV and Nvidia Shield, Amazon and Nvidia pay to license the whole device. 3rd party apps can't get a licence even if they wanted to, because they are not in control of hardware and Windows can't be licensed because it's not in control of which hardware and software can be installed. Which is why confusingly you will see DV on some laptops and prebuilts. (Where hardware can't be changed) Best case is that Microsoft will make their own player but that's very unlikely. It's all very complicated and stupid, and all done intentionally by Dolby.
@@BuzStringer Cheers mate i read this on JRiver forums " Support for HDR10+ tone mapping, using dynamic brightness and HDR10+ tone-mapping curves (and preliminary/basic support for DV dynamic scene data)" So it uses a portion of DV data? Is there any advantage to having a DV file? From the above i understand Why not just use a "HDR 10+" file and be done with it? Now if JRiver really is downsampling to "HDR 10+",that has to at least be better than "HDT 10"? But no better than "HDR 10+"? This whole debacle makes me wonder why anyone makes PC Dolby vision games? Does that not twist your head a wee bit? lol i was naive thinking if they do that,well it has to be the real deal innit lol
On any windows desktop Tested on 3 diff desktops The device also enables Dolby vision encoding/decoding in davinci resole DPk on windows desktop as well
Just got it to work on my pc hooked up with an LG c9. Granted the "films and TV" app is not that great but it does work, at least for dv/mp4/x265 content. Also the app doesn't support subs like vlc when they are embedded in the file, it needs an external srt file. I will probably never use this cause I play dv/mp4/x265 files through universal media server with the tv's player anyway right from my pc hdd but curiosity got the better of me. Setup: gtx 1080 on an lg c9 TV with hdmi 2.1 cable, dolby vision app Installed, films and TV app installed, windows 10 latest update.
You gotta pay to get Film&TV app to support HEVC files though right? Also where do you get DV media files from? I can only really find HDR10 or HDR10+ torrents.
Would love to know how you enabled DV, Windows 11, LG C1 and RTX 4070 Ti and a Dolby Atmos license in the Dolby Access app and nothing will get an option to select DV in the windows settings. SO FAKE!!!!
@@leon9021 sry for the late answer , ummm there are sites out there tha offer DV files for download. I dont know if we can share the names of those sites here but wth , rarbg. I get evertything I need from them nowdays.
@@shutitfukface I told you how mate. dolby vision app Installed, films and TV app installed (paid app). I just turn the TV on PC input, play the file with Films&TV app and the DV file plays as normal ( no greenish and purpleish hue on video so it decodes just fine). You apparently dont have the Dolby Vision Extension, you have the Dolby Access. Dolby Access is for Dolby Atmos not vision. You should just go and download the right extension before you tell people that they are lying 🤣
Not in Kodi and Plex, it's only a few select games and the Films and TV app (which is terrible) Some Dolby Vision playback may work in Plex, but it's getting converted to HDR10.
@@BuzStringer I play Netflix , Disney plus in Dolby Vision on my laptop. And also download many dolby vision movie and this also works perfect on my laptop. I don't even know what is plex or kodi
@@nofateify ah ok that's slightly different, that laptop is certified for Dolby Vision, which means those apps will work. Kodi and Plex are video library managers and video players for video files (not streaming). Other laptops that haven't got the Dolby Vision certification will not play Dolby Vision, even if they are technically capable. The same is true for self built PCs which have no chance of playing Dolby Vision without the Film and TV app. Even though they have the hardware to do it. It's very frustrating. Another thing not mentioned in video is to be careful about Dolby certified products because if they don't keep their BIOS/firmware up to date, in line with Dolby's requirements, they can lose the ability to play DV, this has been a problem with other devices like Smart TVs, the Fire Stick, and even the Nvidia Shield. Which have all lost Dolby Vision support at some point, before getting it back. I am happy that it is working for you though, it gives us hope.
@@gladiatorarrives you can play dolby vision movie in *mp4. MKV fotmat are not supported but this is also not supported on my LG C1 48 OLED. As far as I know only nvidia shield can open dolby vision in MKV file.
The good thing about Dolby Vision is the gradient handling, really. But if day the bad thing is the dynamic metadata actually makes things bad IMO because even the newest displays lag with their brightness boosts to handle scene transitions, and it is usually really quite distracting in film.
people don't realize that when they setup their monitor , they first turn on Variable Refresh rate and Adaptive Sync , which just hoovers the colors and brightness out of your monitor , then they turn on hdr ... ? when you Really want the best experience , you need to turn VRR and Adaptive Sync ... off find another way to get rid of screen tearing , i'm guessing not a lot of people have even seen the actual HDR windows can give them ... people are kind off ... stupid , when it comes to technology , heck , just yesterday someone didn't even know how to send me a picture of some cats , she had the picture on her phone , but couldn't find a way to send , after 10 minutes , she has had that phone for years ... technology can be a good thing , when you know how to use it , but jeesh , people ARE really That stupid
Bro what are you talking about? Fact is, if i have a DOLBY VISION movie on my laptop and plug it via HDMI to my DV certified Monitor, it won't fucking work... Settings have nothing to do with it?!
The Dolby Vision Windows store app (as I understand it) is not true DV (happily proven wrong, as long as you're nice about it ;-) ...) because it just tone maps, right?
No, it allows DV metadata passthrough to the TV, the app doesn't actually do anything, and it doesn't even start if it doesn't detect a licenced dolby vision device via EDID.
Thanks for this video, I recently got a new PC and it claims to support HDR10 on my TV like my old PC did, but content can't display true black anymore so my TV looks like a shitty LCD from the 90s where the darkest black is like 25% grey. The only real difference other than faster GPU and faster CPU is the new one is win 11 and the old one is win 10. If they could just do HDR10 correctly I would be happy, but they can't. In fact, the control panel claims my display doesn't support HDR (even though it _does_ supports DV and HDR10) and at the same time says it's sending HDR content to the display as HDR10 yet it's sending it 8bpc color, non-dithered. What the fuck am I supposed to even make of that. I was trying to get DV to work just because I assumed it would give windows fewer chances to screw up the image, but thanks to your video I see it's not even worth trying. So as far as I can tell, the issue is the win 11 update. So I guess I'll just wait until they get off their asses and decide to fix something they broke. Sidebar: my TV supports 4k120, so does the cable, yet I can't find a way to get windows to refresh the display at 120hz either. What a failure of an operating system. All my apple deices are just plug and play and support all the features that they should i.e. non-dithered HDR at at least 10bpc and 120hz at 4k (I'm not an apple fanboy, just saying what is true). Too bad my apple devices can''t play most of the games I want to play in 4k120 HDR.
windows and HDR is a little bit tricky. if you want to have good HDR you need to maniplate your gpu driver. can't really remember what i did exactly. all i know it was some software where you needed to activate color spaces and you needed to set max., min. and avg. NITS of your display. after that the picture was WAY better. when i first used HDR with my new screen i was very disapointed. after changing it, i got the picture i was used from a xbox series x and HDR. black is now real black and the colors were radiant. active windows HDR mode. then you need the tool "Custom Resolution Utility". below there is something called "extension blocks" with "CTA-861". klick on it. after that click on "colorimetry" -> check EVERY box. two points under "colorimetry" you have the point "HDR static meta data". 1st, 3rd and 5th box must be checked. on the bottom you need to set you luminance according to the display you use. for example: i have a HDR600 screen and for 600 NITs i have to use a "max. luminance" of 113.
@@wanshurst2416 Thanks for the info, I will give it a try next time I feel like tinkering with it. The strange thing is that it worked perfectly on my last PC, and I've even tried using the same video card from that computer. Win11 vs Win10 seems to be the main difference from my perspective, but it could be anything really as everything but the video card and TV have changed.
@@Dbentzjr Thanks for the ideas, I'll definitely give it a try. It's especially annoying because it worked fine on my last PC, so I just assumed it would continue to work the same or better on a new system. I don't even really care that much about HDR, I just wish it would use the dynamic backlight to make blacks darker, which it does do on most SDR content (except for SDR coming from the PC though). Dolby Vision does seem to look better from other sources that support it, so I bet it would be a simple solution if I could just get my PC to output that. At least HDR10 does still look better than SDR even with this backlight issue.
If either of you are curious. I just happened to plug in my old 1080Ti to the same computer I'd bee having issues with and I connected a high refresh rate 4k display similar to my TV to that (not to the same card that by TV is connected to). It connected fine, but the side effect is that now blacks render as they should on the TV that I care about. Really great job with HDR, Microsoft. I still have nothing Dolby Vision working, but I think I'll just keep it as it in without accidentally making things worse.
@@StarsAtNight1 By the way, HDR10 is a joke and hardly better than SDR. DV or HDR10+ should be considered minimum for actual HDR (and HDR10+ is basically dead in the water)
Dolby sounds like Apple going into the video business.
I have been trying for past 5 months, reading various articles and pages to know this, but you summed it really well, now i am not going to waste my time anymoreby searching for articles and videos to enable dolby vision on my pc
so why won't dolby sell DV app for windows as a separate app and price it accordingly. i'd be willing to pay up to $50 for it.
"so why won't dolby sell DV app for windows as a separate app and price it accordingly. i'd be willing to pay up to $50 for it"
They do, and like "Dolby access" for ATMOS,it is a POS based on reviews
Dolby access was nightmare pos
TBH if all you want it for is PC gming,it works amazing
But it cannot be disabled,and it always interferes with your audio
ATMOS in gaming is way less important to me than my music
This has to be written by Dolby?
Wy are they so shit at this software
Yes, i would happily pay a once off permanent lifetime license fee for Dolby vision on my pc especially now Oled monitors have come out so the quality of image is significant enough for Dolby Vision differences to be noticeable.
Atmos is a separate issue as many don't realise that they won't benefit from what Atmos offers unless they can install ceiling and height speakers, or at least upward firing speakers. Otherwise they would experience no benefit of standard Dolby 5.1 or 7.2 or similar sound. Dolby Vision however directly effects the quality of image you see.
@@MaZEEZaM so is the only solution to watch dolby vision to have a compatible tv(i have lg c1), appletv4k, and lets say apple tv+ or netflix ultimate? cuz i might just do this for all my movies and shows, then switch to pc for games, youtube, etc...
great vid. No fluff all facts. I also loved the goofy colors in the beginning - such a nice touch. I'd gladly pay a one-time fee to unlock DV for playback on things like Plex on windows.
DOLBY Vision is going to become obsolete just like HD DVD because of stupid licensing 😵
So in theory then, couldn't we have a certified DV player "APP" that is on a flashable NVROM inside our video card so we could pay the few dollars to "unlock" DV playback and since the playback happens full screen directly through the video card the whole computer doesn't need certification?
I want to play hdr 10 or dolby vision content on my pc ( i own an oled display laptop). Please tell me which video player i can use which supports hdr so that i can watch movies in hdr
The built-in Media player of Wimdows (11) supports HDR
Does anyone know how to bloody disable this at all???? use steam on my tv but when try and play certain games (terror of hermosauraus for example) i will get a few mins of gaming and then black screen (with Dolby Vision at bottom right) and I can hear the game still but no picture, just black screen
DV is proprietary crap that never will conquer the pc market because of the implementation fees.
After reading an article from Digital Trends on one issue with the Samsung Galaxy S23 series, and I can see why.
Still, I wish Samsung should strike a deal with Dolby to bring in Dolby Vision to next year's S24 series.
So for Samsung to do some cost-cutting measures so that they can pay Dolby their licensing fee without issues, have Dolby Vision exclusive for the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra only.
Considering how popular the Ultra variants of the S series after the S22 Ultra, the S24 Ultra with Dolby Vision will sell like hotcakes more than the S23 Ultra and S22 Ultra altogether.
It's very unlikely It's not even on Samsung TVs. Samsung really don't like Dolby for some reason.
so is the only solution to watch dolby vision to have a compatible tv(i have lg c1), appletv4k or shield, and lets say apple tv+ or netflix ultimate? cuz i might just do this for all my movies and shows, then switch to pc for games, youtube, etc...
The LG C4 has dolby vision pc setting. It is useless in win11. No games and it doesn't provide anything better than hdr10.
Any luck? I have a LG C3 42", RTX 4090 and 14th gen Intel CPU etc. Never see the dolby vision logo come up. Have to run direct through the TV. Super annoying
Same here . Tried on my lg cx and g3 and i cant seem to get any dv via my pc...
Kodi has DV on Nvidia Shield, the Dolby Vision extension app is gone from the windows store.
Windows' Movies & TV app can play Dolby Vision because it tone maps it, but it's not actually Dolby Vision. Your TV will not show the Dolby Vision logo.
I just find it strange that Dolby doesn't launch an official app to be able to choose between vivid colors, darkness and brightness in Dolby Vision, since the app it has doesn't do any of that... in fact MPC-HC has released an update that supports Dolby Vision by Media Player Render, is a great option for those who don't want to use the official Microsoft application
@@CreativeGamestv1 When did they devellopp it before 2017 i think because it's wrtitten ont their website: MPC-HC is not under development since 2017. Please switch to something else.
It's great that now there are software players, besides the Dolby Vision Extensions, that handle the DV video +/- correctly. But it is still sad, that having a DV monitor, you still have to deal with HDR10 or with a LLDV.
What are the software players?
@@jacobtreadway8121 MPV player, also MPC video render supports DV, so you can watch a DV movie with any media player that supports the DirectShow filters.
@@jacobtreadway8121 Energy Media Player
@@jacobtreadway8121 CNX Player, but need to pay for DV around 15 bucks
@@jacobtreadway8121 try MPC-HC
Great breakdown. I ponder however, who the heck has true 12-bit color space monitors to begin with for Dolby Vision? I do not understand. Even the $20k production monitors used for broadcast studios and colorists, at most use 10-bit color space. Not even high end TV's are true 10-bit, using 8-bit plus interpolation for the last two bits.
No-one yet, I think they did it because they can, TV manufactures always love bigger numbers, when they start slapping 12-bit on the box (whether that's true 12-bit or not) Dolby will be "Ready". a lot of stuff came out CES with new Variable refresh rate tech, backlight strobing (again), pixel strobing. it's possible the data they would have used for 12-bit, they'll use for 10-bit + Enhanced VRR, just a guess.
Really well summed out, saves me time trying to figure this out. However Im curious about your comment regarding HDR10 on Windows implementation not being messy, how so?
Just copy the DV video to USB and plug it in to your TV if you have one that supports DV
"Just copy the DV video to USB and plug it in to your TV if you have one that supports DV"
Damn that may be a genius idea mate
How is that done tho?
A USB SD card?
Can u get DV and ATMOS over a USB?
i assume not, and you mean some other method?
I have an LG G3, and it def does DV, but if that works for DV, how would i still get ATMOS track?
Cheers
thanks man, love your attitude and the info was very useful. my DV pipe dream, like many other shall be just that for a while longer so haha, a bit off topic but what in your opinion makes the best 4k capable plex client that isn't windows?
Thanks, the best is probably the Nvidia Shield. But the best bang for the buck is Firestick 4K Max, it's on offer quite a lot I picked up 2 last prime day for half price.
You can even get an Ethernet adapter for it if your WiFi struggles with 4K.
The cheap android boxes aren't great, but the Firestick hits the sweet spot.
@@BuzStringer thanks for getitng back to me Buz, I appreciate you sir! i will check it out
Im reading about issues with the 4k max vs the 4k stick on reddit. seems like people are struggling with getting it to always play nice with audio passthrough for truehd atmos 7.1 and even some videos being transcoded when they don't need to be. have you any wisdom for me here sir before I pull the trigger? thanks!
scratch that, found a shield pro tv 2019 for 90 euros, were! sorry for spam lol
Ha no worries, glad you got it worked out. Yes the Shield is best if you are also going for passthrough audio.
Audio and video standards can be a headache and we can all blame Dolby for that.
Just found out about this. I have been having problem with Alienware M15 R7 not able to stream DV HDR. The laptop is featured with Dolby Vision / atmos. Windows 11. It does play HDR video when connected to HDR monitor
Great video, keep doing youtube!
Thanks :) that means a lot
I have had nothing but issues with Dolby. Everything just works on the xbox. The sound, and vision. For some reason W11 just refuse to work. I think this is fully due to Dolby, their Customer Service wasnt great either.. yeah for buying into their services....
My microsof edge is showing Dolby vision on Netflix. But it is really bad and colourless. It is almost black and white. Please tell how to solve this problem
GREAT i downloaded a 30 GIG MOVIE for nothing 😂
had me wondering how to fix this and even on my new oled , video files still seem to be green and purple , only way i found was to redownload , the annoying thing about it when you dont have good internet and live in the country ... ive noticed there dsnp files!!....
The issue I having, is that ran out storage on my phone because of videos. I trying send them to my computer with iTunes and when I downloaded the videos all them end up having a doby watermark. I trying find way to prevent this.
I just realized that the background is the same that techniquie use. That is cool man
Where is Dolby Vision on Windows 10 and 11?
wish I had found this an hour ago :(
Hello thanks for the Video! How do i enable HDR + on Windows? Or where do i See which HDR is enabled while playing a game or movie via potplayer? All i see in the corner on my TV( C2) when i start my PC ist HDR symbol
I just want 4k hdr videos on windows
use jriver media center and tweak settings for hdr
Anyone got a guide on how to make this work? I have DV MKV files, have Dolby Access installed, and Dolby Vision Extensions installed. No dice, does not work, can't find any how-to guides. Any suggestions?
have you watched the video?
@@expatnow unhelpful x2
You won't find any guides because DV doesn't work on Windows outside of a few specific edge cases, even then it's not great. That's the short version of the video.
Thank you for this video...
Good information!
Спасибо за разъяснения. А то я очень удивился увидев неправильные цвета в VLC.
Dolby access for atmos is nightmare enough
What a pos
It finally does work well with games, but it efs up other audio programs and it cannot, no matter what they or tutorials say, be turned on and off cuz I only want it for games
The app seems an underwhelming experience and a money grab
They did refund me tho after a pita complaining
I won’t even bother with d vision then
I do believe that Potplayer and River Media support Dolby vision
Plz correct me if I’m wrong?
pot and river will playback DV content but it's either using the standard HDR Fallback layer or tone mapping DV to standard HDR, which will be static, not dynamic and not real DV :(
Edit: a sentence that was nonsense
@@BuzStringer Well that really sucks to hear mate.
So basically when one plays a DV file in Potplayer or Jriver they are actually getting HDR? Or HDR 10+?
Or something in between? Not as good as DV but maybe better,a bit, than Dolby Vision?
I've been trying to suss this issue for a while now on the Jriver forums, and most of it went way over my head
If i am understanding you correctly,you made it way simpler to understand than what i read on JRiver forums(Version 31)
So when they say it supports DV,that does not mean that it actually plays DV as DV?
So having back up DV files on my PC is basically a waste if i want DV playback,and the only way to get actual DV is to stream, and or a Blu-ray/disc player that has DV?
EDIT: Also DV pc games would also be w wasted time if one is expecting actual DV in the games output?
Makes me wonder why those games bother to have and market those games as DV
Cheers
@@leperlord7078 yeah unfortunately you be just getting HDR, maybe slightly better depending on how their tone mapping works but it won't be real DV.
With the exception of games, Dolby doesn't license DV to software alone, they license the whole device so they can control all of the processing chain.
Which is why Plex/Emby/Kodi won't playback true DV on Windows, but they will on an Android device like the FireTV and Nvidia Shield, Amazon and Nvidia pay to license the whole device.
3rd party apps can't get a licence even if they wanted to, because they are not in control of hardware and Windows can't be licensed because it's not in control of which hardware and software can be installed.
Which is why confusingly you will see DV on some laptops and prebuilts. (Where hardware can't be changed)
Best case is that Microsoft will make their own player but that's very unlikely.
It's all very complicated and stupid, and all done intentionally by Dolby.
@@BuzStringer Cheers mate
i read this on JRiver forums
" Support for HDR10+ tone mapping, using dynamic brightness and HDR10+ tone-mapping curves (and preliminary/basic support for DV dynamic scene data)"
So it uses a portion of DV data?
Is there any advantage to having a DV file?
From the above i understand
Why not just use a "HDR 10+" file and be done with it?
Now if JRiver really is downsampling to "HDR 10+",that has to at least be better than "HDT 10"? But no better than "HDR 10+"?
This whole debacle makes me wonder why anyone makes PC Dolby vision games?
Does that not twist your head a wee bit? lol
i was naive thinking if they do that,well it has to be the real deal innit lol
What if I use Android TV OS as a vm and then play DV videos through it?
Unfortunately not, DV requires direct hardware level Access.
@@BuzStringer but I've heard it works when you use a MP4 download and copy it over a usb and plug that usb to a DV capable TV
So? did you find a solution?@@SubhajeetChakraborty-rs4xo
On any windows desktop
Tested on 3 diff desktops
The device also enables Dolby vision encoding/decoding in davinci resole DPk on windows desktop as well
what? what device?
Explain...
Just got it to work on my pc hooked up with an LG c9. Granted the "films and TV" app is not that great but it does work, at least for dv/mp4/x265 content. Also the app doesn't support subs like vlc when they are embedded in the file, it needs an external srt file. I will probably never use this cause I play dv/mp4/x265 files through universal media server with the tv's player anyway right from my pc hdd but curiosity got the better of me.
Setup: gtx 1080 on an lg c9 TV with hdmi 2.1 cable, dolby vision app Installed, films and TV app installed, windows 10 latest update.
You gotta pay to get Film&TV app to support HEVC files though right? Also where do you get DV media files from? I can only really find HDR10 or HDR10+ torrents.
Would love to know how you enabled DV, Windows 11, LG C1 and RTX 4070 Ti and a Dolby Atmos license in the Dolby Access app and nothing will get an option to select DV in the windows settings. SO FAKE!!!!
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@@leon9021 sry for the late answer , ummm there are sites out there tha offer DV files for download. I dont know if we can share the names of those sites here but wth , rarbg. I get evertything I need from them nowdays.
@@shutitfukface I told you how mate. dolby vision app Installed, films and TV app installed (paid app). I just turn the TV on PC input, play the file with Films&TV app and the DV file plays as normal ( no greenish and purpleish hue on video so it decodes just fine). You apparently dont have the Dolby Vision Extension, you have the Dolby Access. Dolby Access is for Dolby Atmos not vision. You should just go and download the right extension before you tell people that they are lying 🤣
anyone know how to force it to display via hdmi on a 4k dolby supporting monitor/tv??
Did you find a solution?
I have a Video projector DOLBY VISION certified but when i plug it to my PC to read content from it, it does not work...
You wrong I have Lenovo Legion 5 and I have dolby vision on Windows 11
Not in Kodi and Plex, it's only a few select games and the Films and TV app (which is terrible)
Some Dolby Vision playback may work in Plex, but it's getting converted to HDR10.
@@BuzStringer I play Netflix , Disney plus in Dolby Vision on my laptop. And also download many dolby vision movie and this also works perfect on my laptop. I don't even know what is plex or kodi
@@nofateify ah ok that's slightly different, that laptop is certified for Dolby Vision, which means those apps will work.
Kodi and Plex are video library managers and video players for video files (not streaming).
Other laptops that haven't got the Dolby Vision certification will not play Dolby Vision, even if they are technically capable.
The same is true for self built PCs which have no chance of playing Dolby Vision without the Film and TV app. Even though they have the hardware to do it. It's very frustrating.
Another thing not mentioned in video is to be careful about Dolby certified products because if they don't keep their BIOS/firmware up to date, in line with Dolby's requirements, they can lose the ability to play DV, this has been a problem with other devices like Smart TVs, the Fire Stick, and even the Nvidia Shield. Which have all lost Dolby Vision support at some point, before getting it back.
I am happy that it is working for you though, it gives us hope.
@@gladiatorarrives you can play dolby vision movie in *mp4. MKV fotmat are not supported but this is also not supported on my LG C1 48 OLED. As far as I know only nvidia shield can open dolby vision in MKV file.
@@gladiatorarrives how can I check which profile do I use?
The good thing about Dolby Vision is the gradient handling, really.
But if day the bad thing is the dynamic metadata actually makes things bad IMO because even the newest displays lag with their brightness boosts to handle scene transitions, and it is usually really quite distracting in film.
Hi, nice video, but how i play video in my PC with dolby vision? i download batman 4k/dolby vision 100GB, hdmi 2.1 rtx 2070 super...
people don't realize that when they setup their monitor ,
they first turn on Variable Refresh rate and Adaptive Sync ,
which just hoovers the colors and brightness out of your monitor ,
then they turn on hdr ... ?
when you Really want the best experience , you need to turn VRR and Adaptive Sync ... off
find another way to get rid of screen tearing ,
i'm guessing not a lot of people have even seen the actual HDR windows can give them ...
people are kind off ... stupid , when it comes to technology ,
heck , just yesterday someone didn't even know how to send me a picture of some cats ,
she had the picture on her phone , but couldn't find a way to send , after 10 minutes ,
she has had that phone for years ...
technology can be a good thing , when you know how to use it , but jeesh , people ARE really That stupid
Bro what are you talking about?
Fact is, if i have a DOLBY VISION movie on my laptop and plug it via HDMI to my DV certified Monitor, it won't fucking work...
Settings have nothing to do with it?!
The Dolby Vision Windows store app (as I understand it) is not true DV (happily proven wrong, as long as you're nice about it ;-) ...) because it just tone maps, right?
No, it allows DV metadata passthrough to the TV, the app doesn't actually do anything, and it doesn't even start if it doesn't detect a licenced dolby vision device via EDID.
@@yoriisoet that's nice, is that confirmed?
Also, is the app and functionality free?
@@eliotcole it is free, but as I said it will only work with a licensed dolby vision device, you can force install it anyway but it won't work.
Thanks for this video, I recently got a new PC and it claims to support HDR10 on my TV like my old PC did, but content can't display true black anymore so my TV looks like a shitty LCD from the 90s where the darkest black is like 25% grey. The only real difference other than faster GPU and faster CPU is the new one is win 11 and the old one is win 10. If they could just do HDR10 correctly I would be happy, but they can't. In fact, the control panel claims my display doesn't support HDR (even though it _does_ supports DV and HDR10) and at the same time says it's sending HDR content to the display as HDR10 yet it's sending it 8bpc color, non-dithered. What the fuck am I supposed to even make of that. I was trying to get DV to work just because I assumed it would give windows fewer chances to screw up the image, but thanks to your video I see it's not even worth trying. So as far as I can tell, the issue is the win 11 update. So I guess I'll just wait until they get off their asses and decide to fix something they broke. Sidebar: my TV supports 4k120, so does the cable, yet I can't find a way to get windows to refresh the display at 120hz either. What a failure of an operating system. All my apple deices are just plug and play and support all the features that they should i.e. non-dithered HDR at at least 10bpc and 120hz at 4k (I'm not an apple fanboy, just saying what is true). Too bad my apple devices can''t play most of the games I want to play in 4k120 HDR.
windows and HDR is a little bit tricky. if you want to have good HDR you need to maniplate your gpu driver. can't really remember what i did exactly. all i know it was some software where you needed to activate color spaces and you needed to set max., min. and avg. NITS of your display. after that the picture was WAY better. when i first used HDR with my new screen i was very disapointed. after changing it, i got the picture i was used from a xbox series x and HDR. black is now real black and the colors were radiant.
active windows HDR mode. then you need the tool "Custom Resolution Utility". below there is something called "extension blocks" with "CTA-861". klick on it. after that click on "colorimetry" -> check EVERY box. two points under "colorimetry" you have the point "HDR static meta data". 1st, 3rd and 5th box must be checked. on the bottom you need to set you luminance according to the display you use. for example: i have a HDR600 screen and for 600 NITs i have to use a "max. luminance" of 113.
@@wanshurst2416 Thanks for the info, I will give it a try next time I feel like tinkering with it. The strange thing is that it worked perfectly on my last PC, and I've even tried using the same video card from that computer. Win11 vs Win10 seems to be the main difference from my perspective, but it could be anything really as everything but the video card and TV have changed.
@@Dbentzjr Thanks for the ideas, I'll definitely give it a try. It's especially annoying because it worked fine on my last PC, so I just assumed it would continue to work the same or better on a new system. I don't even really care that much about HDR, I just wish it would use the dynamic backlight to make blacks darker, which it does do on most SDR content (except for SDR coming from the PC though). Dolby Vision does seem to look better from other sources that support it, so I bet it would be a simple solution if I could just get my PC to output that. At least HDR10 does still look better than SDR even with this backlight issue.
If either of you are curious. I just happened to plug in my old 1080Ti to the same computer I'd bee having issues with and I connected a high refresh rate 4k display similar to my TV to that (not to the same card that by TV is connected to). It connected fine, but the side effect is that now blacks render as they should on the TV that I care about. Really great job with HDR, Microsoft. I still have nothing Dolby Vision working, but I think I'll just keep it as it in without accidentally making things worse.
dv sucks , but apparently everybody on internet thinks dv is great, only because lg oleds support that crap.
You're wrong it's great
@@langstonbelin LOL
@@StarsAtNight1 By the way, HDR10 is a joke and hardly better than SDR. DV or HDR10+ should be considered minimum for actual HDR (and HDR10+ is basically dead in the water)
You are so wrong. You don't even know. Lol
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